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Itapemirim (ITA), a new Brazilian airline that will start operations in Brazil, selected NAVBLUE suite of solutions to support its flight operations.

ITA will use NAVBLUE’s Electronic Flight Bag and Navigation data solutions, such as Flysmart+, Performance Engineer’s Programs, Documentation management services, Airport Obstacle and FMS navigation databases. These solutions will contribute to the airline’s cabin cockpit digitization while ensuring a full optimization of their performance calculations. 

About Itapemirim

Itapemirim, the newest Airbus operator in Brazil,  will start domestic operations with four A320ceo on routes between São Paulo, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. ITA plans to further expand its A320 fleet and open new routes in the years to come. 

Taipei, Taiwan / New York, USA – June 9, 2021 – IDMR Solutions Inc., a global leader in technical documentation management and electronic signatures designed for aviation, announced today that it would implement its flagship product, InForm, at China Airlines (CAL). CAL is the state-owned national carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

IDMR’s integrated suite of applications has proven success while increasing operational performance and decreasing operating costs while ensuring airworthiness, safety, and regulatory compliance at several commercial and cargo operators for fixed and rotary wings aircraft. InForm will enable CAL to digitize its Task Cards, Engineering Orders, business processes,
document distribution, and Line Maintenance signatures.

CAL chose IDMR to be a partner in its journey of digital transformation. InForm will seamlessly integrate with the airlines’ M&E and records systems but also offer cutting-edge and nextgeneration technologies combined with optimal user experience and real-time visibility of their
entire Line Maintenance operations.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, IDMR and CAL chose to undertake this ambitious project within a tight timeline. With repeated lockdowns in Taiwan, it was imperative to implement an innovative and comprehensive software that gave access to CAL’s engineers to aviation’s best paperless practices, incomparable flexibility, and industry standardizations. In addition, the current context underlines the imperative for airlines to adopt lean, agile, and digital solutions.

“We are extremely pleased to be working with IDMR Solutions as they will provide invaluable efficiencies in our operations. IDMR contributes to transforming our operation in line maintenance via digitalization of task card preparation and signoff process. As a result, we willbe able to streamline our line maintenance allowing Technical Operations teams to focus on their essential task.”

Edward Tao, General Manager of Engineering Technical Information at CAL,

Highly adaptable, IDMR’s comprehensive and integrated solutions considerably improves productivity, facilitating collaboration and synergies within CAL, especially in the current context.

“We are delighted by the opportunity to help CAL reach ambitious paperless goals. We are excited to have CAL join our portfolio and are looking forward to a successful implementation and long-term partnership. Allowing true end-to-end paperless and remote capabilities is crucial in the post-COVID-19 era,”

Israel Revivo, CEO/President, IDMR Solutions.

About IDMR Solutions Inc.
IDMR Solutions Inc. is a global leader offering enterprise SaaS and mobile solutions for content management, document distribution, electronic task cards, and e-signatures in the highly regulated aviation industry. InForm is a software engineered to provide end-to-end comprehensive business solutions integrated with leading M&E systems. InForm supports the
industry leaders’ remote and mobile workforces enabling safe and efficient operations. Every day, thousands of engineers, maintenance planners, technical writers, and maintenance technicians rely on InForm for digital delivery of operational content, replacing paper-based documentation. With aviation leaders trusting IDMR, InForm is the solution of choice for several national carriers, heli-operators, e-commerce, defense and logistics contractors, and MRO organizations.

www.IDMR-Solutions.com

About China Airlines
China Airlines Ltd is a Taiwan-based company mainly engaged in air transportation services. The Company mainly provides three services. Passenger transportation services provide international passenger transportation and regular and irregular charter flights. Freight service provides international cargo and express, mail, and parcel delivery. In-flight sales services provide passengers with the purchase of duty-free goods on board. The Company also provides ground handling services, the sales of in-flight commodities, warehouse and logistics services, the repair
and maintenance services of aircraft, and the training of staff of civil aviation, among others. The Company operates businesses globally.

CrossConsense continues to uphold its high standard. In June 2021 we were successfully recertified by the TÜV. The consistent conformity and effectiveness of our Quality Management was again confirmed in all respects.

The decision to implement the ISO 9001 Quality Management System at CrossConsense was made more than 20 years ago. The team can be proud that since the implementation the standard has always been proven on a high level.

Meeting the ISO 9001:2015 requirements and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System compliant with the standards are some of the assumptions underlying our Quality Policy. Our mission is to provide support on a high-quality level as well as products developed with innovative and safe technologies for the aviation industry. The ISO certificate not only confirms the high quality of these services but is also a token of the reliability and professionalism of our company as a dependable business partner.

Since our last recertification in 2019 our focus has been on improving our sophisticated monitoring of service tickets, thus enhancing this process to achieve highest customer satisfaction by on-time performance and quality responses.

For our customers, the current certification means that they can count on maximum reliability in combination with top quality and top performance. Opportunities and risks are to be identified and analysed in shortest time.

About CrossConsense: “Since being established in 2002, we basically think from the perspective of the user. We are not pure IT geeks, and it is exactly that which characterizes our services and products. Thus, we distinguish ourselves from most of the specialists for the implementation of solutions. We can’t do otherwise, because in the DNA of CrossConsense are many years of experience in Airlines, in the area of procurement, engineering and maintenance. We know your job as if it were ours. And THAT you will feel immediately!” CrossConsense’s portfolio stretches from AMOS Support, BI-Management, Data Migration and Hosting to the products Aircraft Fleet View (app that that gives you an always up-to-date view on your airline’s fleet status), ACSIS (tool for predictive maintenance) and AviationDW (tool that supports airlines to get an overview over all KPIs the airline is interested in).

BANBURY, UNITED KINGDOM: Rusada, a leading provider of aviation software solutions, has announced a major recruitment drive to grow its Product Development division.

Despite the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rusada has remained in a strong financial position throughout, due a diverse customer portfolio and the signing of several important contracts.

In the last 12 months the company has agreed significant deals with airlines, helicopter operators, and MROs, for the use of its ENVISION software. Rusada also signed one of the largest contracts in its history back in August 2020, with a major government entity.

As such, it is now looking to capitalise on this position of strength and bolster its development capabilities. The company has already recruited 14 new members of staff this year, with another 7 in progress, and is looking to add a further 10 positions by the end of 2021. This includes Software Developers, both senior and junior, Product Owners and Product Testers. Many of these roles will be based out of Rusada’s UK office in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

“We are incredibly fortunate to be in the position we now find ourselves in, as many in the industry haven’t been so lucky. I would like to thank all our staff for their commitment and dedication during this period, as well as our loyal customers.

“The addition of these new roles will allow us to further improve ENVISION’s functionality and make it even easier to use through new apps, interfaces and integrations. So, if you know anyone with development skills, please send them our way.”

Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada

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About Rusada
Rusada is a global aviation software provider established in 1987 and headquartered in Switzerland. With operations in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas, Rusada supports 100+ major customers worldwide with software that manages 2,000 aircraft in 40 countries.

The company’s ENVISION software provides key management information and operational process control for aircraft operators, maintenance and repair organizations (MROs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aviation service organizations.

More information
Rusada
Chris Prior
Marketing Manager
chris.prior@rusada.com
+44 (0) 1295 231619

We are happy to announce that EXSYN and ASL Belgium have successfully migrated ASL Belgium aircraft from AMASIS to the ASL Group AMOS system.

With the migration of the full airworthiness data to the ASL Group AMOS system, ASL Belgium joins the central airworthiness management system of the ASL Group. Thru this enabling the Liege based Cargo operator to in-source the continuous airworthiness management of their fleet under their own CAMO approval. Critical path in this aircraft data migration exercise was the migration of airworthiness data into an already operational system used to manage similar aircraft types as well as migrating the aircraft according to a pre-set schedule rather than a big bang approach. Another critical point was the extraction of data from the source AMASIS system that required additional techniques available in EXSYN’s aircraft data management platform. The coming months will be dedicated to migrating further remaining aircraft of ASL-Belgium into the ASL Group AMOS system.

“ASLB with EXSYN support has managed to perform the B737-400 data migration from AMASIS and integration into the ASL Group AMOS airworthiness management system in the initially allotted timeframe, even in the middle of this extremely difficult period the world is going through. Remote collaboration by both teams has been excellent, and it shows how means to reach aggressive targets can always be found by motivated aviation people“ says Javier Tena, AMOS Project Manager ASL Belgium

Bruno Cadete, Aircraft Data Consultant at EXSYN, adds: “Happy to have been a part of the successful integration of ASL Belgium into the ASL Group AMOS system. Through the remote collaboration of people within EXSYN,  ASL Belgium and ASL Group, we were able to overcome the restrictions of a global pandemic and show that despite the difficult situation where the aviation sector was thrown in, there is still space for companies and airlines to grow and improve together with the help of EXSYN. “

About ASL Airlines Belgium

ASL Airlines Belgium, formerly TNT Airways, is a Belgian cargo airline operating chartered cargo flights. It has its head office and hub on the grounds of Liège Airport. ASL Airlines Belgium is part of the ASL Aviation Group.

About EXSYN Aviation Solutions

EXSYN Aviation Solutions is specialized in the field of aircraft data, analytics & processing. Our portfolio of technology focuses on aircraft data and airworthiness management. These include tools for aircraft reliability management, predictive maintenance, system integration, aircraft records archiving and managed services for data migration, aircraft data optimization, and robotic process automation.

An intense two-year test campaign on aerospace composite structures at the Aerospace Structures & Materials Laboratory of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of the TU Delft (NL) and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of University of Patras (GR) has resulted in a unique Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Database. This knowledge bank provides the aviation industry and research communities data to not only diagnose the current state of the structure real-time, but to additionally predict the future state of the structure of aircraft by using artificial intelligence models. This can support aircraft maintenance engineers to detect, locate and assess the severity of damage of composite aerospace structures that is often not apparent at the surface and requires a lot of time to detect through manual inspections. This is the first database – worldwide – that is publicly available for that purpose. The SHM Data is now available at Dataverse.nl.

Bumpy landings and human decisions
”Nowadays a pilot decides whether, for instance, a bumpy landing is reason to check the aircraft structure. This is a human based decision. We want to move from this dependency of human factor alone”, says project-leader Dimitrios Zarouchas (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering). “With this knowledge bank we want to demonstrate how by using state of the art sensing technologies and AI-based algorithms we can further enhance this decision-making process of maintenance. This database is not just for one specific aircraft. Every stakeholder in the aviation industry should have the possibility to learn from this database and adapt its outcome to their needs. Operators can use it as a benchmark and compare their performance when it comes to aircraft maintenance. Aircraft manufacturers can use this database to improve their design. That is why we keep our models and test campaigns as generic as possible.”

438.000 test cycles and still counting
The SHM data has been collected using five different sensing technologies. Zarouchas: ”By far this number is unique as commercial initiatives use only one sensing technology that is applicable for only one type of aircraft and thus is company dependent. We collected our data from hundreds of thousands test cycles on generic composite structures simulating realistic flight conditions and abnormal situations, such as bumpy landings and low energy impacts. In the coming period the database will be further populated with data from tests at more representative structural levels. We envision that the research community in collaboration with aviation industry will use this database and design predictive models and share these in return. More accurate models and more reliable predictions of the condition of the aircraft structures could help to shift towards smarter and more efficient, so called condition-based maintenance. ”

Contribution to Green Aviation
The introduction of reliable SHM technologies that can continuously monitor the existence of minor damages, will allow to design with higher design allowables thanks to a more reliable detection of damage. Mid-term design impact on structural components is expected to result in a 3 to 7% reduction of weight. On the long term the adoption of more efficient aerostructures design is estimated in a weight reduction of 10-20%. This weight reduction will result in 105 tons less fuel and 350 tons CO2-reduction for an aircraft flying 700 flights per year.

Part of a four-year European research project: ReMAP
This research is part of a European project called ReMAP (Real-time Condition-based Maintenance for Adaptive Aircraft Maintenance Planning) that started in June 2018 and will continue until May 2022. ReMAP’s aim is to make the maintenance of aircraft fleets smarter and more efficient. For the first time, the use of health diagnostics and prognostics from dissimilar aircraft systems and structures will be used to create real-time adaptive maintenance plans. A fleet level approach will be followed, since the potential of CBM can only be achieved by monitoring the health of all aircraft in a fleet, managing maintenance resources and operational needs. In Europe alone, the potential savings on aircraft maintenance can amount to 700 million euros per year. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The Structure Health Management-research will be tested on lab-scale. The diagnostics and prognostics on aircraft systems and components ánd the real-time adaptive maintenance planningtool will be tested in a real life demonstration at KLM.

ReMAP partners
For this SHM researchcomposite panels are designed by Embraer (PT) and manufactured by Optimal Solutions (PT). The sensors are provided by Cedrat Technologies (FR) and Smartec SA (CH) and are very carefully placed on these panels by scientifically based criteria from the University of Patras (GR). École National Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (FR) developed the data acquisition software.

Partners involved in diagnostics and prognostics on aircraft systems and components which culminates into an Integrated Fleet Health Management Tool are ATOS (SP), UTRC (IE), ONERA (FR), University of Coimbra (PT), TU Delft and KLM.

ReMAP-website: https://h2020-remap.eu/

Sergio Ramos Joins Comply365 as Chief Commercial Officer

Beloit, WI – JUNE 14, 2021 – Comply365 today announced the appointment of Sergio Ramos as its Chief Commercial Officer. Ramos, an aviation industry veteran, will oversee Comply365’s worldwide Sales, Marketing and Customer Success efforts.

Ramos has more than 20 years of commercial experience developing international markets for the travel industry.  He has successfully worked to provide technology solutions to help customers meet their evolving needs while establishing long lasting partnerships.

“Sergio’s background and experience made him a strong candidate for the role,” Comply365 CEO Tom Samuel said. “We have an exceptionally talented team at Comply365 that is focused on delivering innovative solutions to solve critical operational challenges for our customers. We are very fortunate to have Sergio join our team.”

Prior to joining Comply365, Ramos spent 16 years at Accelya, where he held different commercial roles in EMEA and Americas, including SVP Commercial (Americas) during the most recent 11-year period.

“I am excited to be joining Comply365 in my role as Chief Commercial Officer,” Ramos said. “I am also eager to work with the Comply365 team, as well as with our customers across the world. I strongly believe that as the transportation industry moves toward recovery, Comply365 will have a pivotal role in driving the next wave of operational digital transformation.”

Ramos earned a master’s degree in Commercial and Marketing Management from ESIC Business & Marketing School in Madrid, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

ABOUT COMPLY365
Comply365 is the leading provider of enterprise SaaS and mobile solutions for content management and document distribution in highly regulated industries including aviation, rail, and energy. Comply365 supports the world’s most mobile and remote workforces with targeted and personalized delivery of job-critical data that enables safe, efficient, and compliant operations. Every day, hundreds of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, rail conductors and engineers, as well as energy workforce rely on Comply365 for digital delivery of operational content, including OEM and internal company manuals. Having played an instrumental role in the regulatory approval of electronic flight bags (EFB) to replace the traditional, paper-based, pilot flight bags, Comply365 partners with clients to transform their industries.

Comply365’s ProAuthor to Offer Airline End-to-End Operational Content and Compliance Management

Beloit, WI – June 10, 2021 – Aviation software leader Comply365 is pleased to announce Airnorth, Australia’s second longest operating airline, will begin leveraging the power of Comply365’s mobile platform to deliver personalized and targeted operational documents to its crew, as well as capture compliance data.

The northern Australian airline recently began transforming to paperless flight operations and chose ProAuthor, Comply365’s end-to-end operational content and compliance management system to enable faster, more routine manual revisions, and to allow Airnorth to always be audit ready.

“We are excited to switch from a paper distribution of our manuals to our first Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) model. We needed a reliable solution to distribute manuals and flight briefing information, as well as an authoring platform to improve our document control, and to maintain regulatory compliance,” said Simon Gibbons, General manager of Flight Operations of Airnorth. “Comply365 came out on top, offering a proven solution that will bring tremendous value to our airline and a great user experience for our pilots.”

Pilots will receive flight plans delivered to their iPads via Comply365’s Digital Briefing solution, saving paper and printing costs as well as enabling more timely delivery. Electronic forms will give pilots and cabin, ground, and airport crews the ability to instantly send information to operations teams, offering insights to make data-driven decisions.

Airnorth operates into some of the world’s most challenging environments, operating scheduled and charter services to over 20 destinations for a wide range of companies including mining, defense, and government clients. Based in Darwin, Australia, its serves domestic destinations across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, and Victoria, and internationally to Dili, Timor-Leste.

Airnorth becomes the sixth Australian airline to join Comply365’s global customer base.

“It’s always exciting to partner with a new customer to help them transition from paper manuals and processes to a digital operation. We are glad to welcome Airnorth to our Comply365 community,” Comply365 CEO Tom Samuel said. “We look forward to providing a great user experience for Airnorth’s frontline staff, who will be able to receive more personalized and targeted information. We expect this will lead to a more efficient and safer operation.”

ABOUT COMPLY365
Comply365 is the leading provider of enterprise SaaS and mobile solutions for content management and document distribution in highly regulated industries including aviation, rail, and energy. Comply365 supports the world’s most mobile and remote workforces with targeted and personalized delivery of job-critical data that enables safe, efficient, and compliant operations. Every day, hundreds of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, rail conductors and engineers, and energy workers rely on Comply365 for digital delivery of operational (OEM and company) manuals. Having played an instrumental role in the FAA’s approval of replacing the traditional, paper-based, pilot flight bags with electronic flight bags (EFBs), Comply365 partners with clients to transform their industries.

ABOUT AIRNORTH
Airnorth is Australia’s second longest operating airline, mastering the northern skies for over 40 years. Its operations are based in Darwin and include both scheduled and charter services to over 20 destinations, including domestic services across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, and Victoria and internationally to Dili, Timor-Leste. More than just a business, Airnorth is a crucial part of the social and economic fabric of the Northern Territory and serves as a vital partner to many of its valued clients. Airnorth has been a part of the Territory for over four generations and is proud to provide essential air services to communities all-year round, enabling prosperity for families, businesses, and entire regions. Committed to providing safe, reliable, and comfortable air travel for its customers, maintaining the highest in safety accreditation standards.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gina Duwe, Marketing Coordinator, Comply365
gduwe@comply365.com
+1 608.313.1500 Teyghan Stadelbauer, Marketing and Communications Manager, Airnorth
Teyghan.stadelbauer@airnorth.com.au

Hong Kong Air Cargo, the subsidiary of Hong Kong Airlines, has successfully migrated to NAVBLUE’s N-Ops & Crew lite, a vanilla, cost-effective cloud version of N-Ops & Crew (formerly N-RAIDO), featured with speedy deployment.

In a single solution, N-OC enables Hong Kong Air Cargo to plan and distribute their network schedules, maintain full operations control with configurable operating rules, as well as manage and optimize crew schedule planning, day-of-ops crew control, crew training and qualifications, and crew mobile access.

With N-OC, Hong Kong Air Cargo will not only streamline their processes and unlock efficiencies but also experience enhanced situational-awareness and collaborative-decision-making across operations stakeholders as information is shared in real-time.

Andy Ma – General Manager, Information Technology at Hong Kong Air Cargo said: “Ten months ago, we decided to switch Ops System and Crew Planning system.  Today, we are operating with N-Ops & Crew (N-OC) and all implementation with satisfactory result. N-OC is a good system and we are very happy about it – including customization and the special adjustments we had made in relation to our particular business. The support, training and attention to our business exceeds what we have experienced from any IT Suppliers.”

About Hong Kong Air Cargo

Hong Kong Air Cargo Carrier Limited (Hong Kong Air Cargo) is an all-cargo airline based in Hong Kong. Since its establishment in 2017, Hong Kong Air Cargo continuously provides international scheduled and non-scheduled air freight transportation service for Hong Kong, Asia and beyond. Currently, Hong Kong Air Cargo operates a network of twelve destinations with its fleet of five A330-200F wide-body freighter.

Moscow, 19 May –  Aeroflot becomes the first Russian operator to install the Braking Action Computation Function (BACF). The technology enables to more accurately evaluate the braking action the aircraft experienced during landing and share the data with airport ground services departments. In parallel, BACF shared data with RunwaySense another NAVBLUE service to support runway condition reporting to access in real time using the unique data provided by aircraft. By sharing aircraft Braking Action data highly valuable for the next runway users, BACF helps addressing the biggest category of accidents, so-called “runway excursions”, when an aircraft departs the runway. This service aims to increase flight safety and help its users to satisfy ICAO latest standards.

BACF is developed by Airbus and its subsidiary NAVBLUE, a company dedicated to flight operations for airlines and air traffic management. Aeroflot has signed a contract to install BACF on its single aisle A320 Family. The technology will be later available for A350 widebody aircraft.

“Ensuring safety is priority for our airline, – emphasized Mikhail Poluboyarinov, Aeroflot CEO. – Aeroflot meets the highest international standards and acts as guide for global industry initiatives in Russia. The installation of BACF technology will help us to more effectively cooperate with all the partners within the air transportation process.”

“In Russia there are some of the most challenging weather conditions with winter season lasting up to 6 month, runways can be contaminated, particularly with standing water, snow and/or ice. We are looking forward to seeing how Aeroflot’s operations will benefit from this technology and how airports will use this data to enhance Runway Condition assessment”, said Julien Franiatte, Head of Country Russia, Airbus.

The BACF is a special software which is being installed on aircraft. The functionality uses data from an aircraft’s braking phase during landing, comparing this information against different reference runway conditions using Airbus Aircraft Performance Data, based on this comparison the software evaluates the encountered level of braking action.

This information is displayed on the cockpit’s Multifunction Control & Display Unit (MCDU), assisting pilots in transmitting their Braking Action report to air traffic controllers, to be then shared with airport. The calculated BACF data is also sent automatically by digital link to NAVBLUE, which collects and displays the results on its RunwaySense web application. The RunwaySense technological approach is similar to mobile apps that allow drivers to see and avoid traffic jams with data generated by other drivers.

By sharing reports in real-time, RunwaySense users will better understand how runway conditions are trending, and airports can anticipate and mitigate slippery conditions.